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Genetic Manipulation - Good Intentions, Slow Progress

            Genetic manipulation is a field of good intentions and slow progress. It is done in hope of making better and improved lives for everyone through changing genetic structure. These practices have been questioned however by those that morally think that only God should have the control over someone's destiny or that one should control his own destiny. The two groups look to the government for help regarding this matter, and as a response; it maintains neutrality to ensure the two groups that they will be free to continue doing as they do freely.
             The side for gene manipulation is based majorly from the people who believed in its scientific prowess. They see it as a way to correct the "defects" in people; their cure to all illnesses and handicaps. All to be perfect. It's a drive that many have but it is also a quality in humans that some would call one of the defects that this side despises. There is no true perfect form unless you can accept yourself. So even if you have the perfect body, with strongclean genes, all you are mentally is a person who was born predefined and is now a prisoner of fate and high expectations.
             Critics of gene manipulation are mostly those who have moral or religious problems with it. They argue that no human should have the power to change what you will be, specified to someone's taste. The choice to have qualities that would be changed from what they would be in life should be a conscious decision to be made by the person involved. This is what they say, however you can find people anywhere in the world who would say differently. People who wished they would have been born with a genetic base that didn't include HIV and AIDS so that they could have a normal life and not one filled with the constant struggle to stay alive.
             In the middle of all of this is the government. They have an obligation to be neutral to both sides. This works as a double edged sword for them.


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